Right outside of the Dining Hall sits a small room whose windows advertise a new exhibition titled “Veils” by Kelly Banfield `24. The new display, housed in the Edith Renfrow Smith `37 Student Art Gallery, features four photographs and an installation composed of makeup wipes at various stages in the removal process. Banfield talked about.
The deep freeze that swept through the United States in December and January did not spare small-town Grinnell. With two back-to-back snowstorms in the week of Sunday, Jan. 7, Grinnell residents faced temperatures below minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit and snow 20 inches deep conditions that greatly affected city operations. “Everything in town shut down,”.
“No One is Better than You: Edith Renfrow Smith and the Power of a Mother’s Words,” a children’s book honoring the legacy of the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College, has officially been released. The launch event, hosted at the Pioneer Bookshop on Saturday, Jan. 27, was attended by Monique McLay Shore `90,.
Despite its convenient location by the Dining Hall, the Smith Gallery can be an easy place to miss if the only thing on one’s mind are garlic breadsticks and General Tso’s chicken. But this gallery pulls its weight in whipping up equally flavorful selections of visual fare. Named for Edith Renfrow Smith `37, its unadorned.
Due to ongoing construction on the Civic Engagement Quad (CEQ) and Edith Renfrow Smith `37 Hall in downtown Grinnell, Farm House residents have temporarily lost access to the original plot of land they used to farm. To allow farming to continue, they have now implemented raised garden beds and repurposed the plot of land behind.